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Article • January 12, 2015
Michigan Law Allows Sex Offenders to Use Emergency Shelters Within 1,000 Feet of School by Michigan Law Allows Sex Offenders to Use Emergency Shelters Within 1,000 Feet of School Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) permits a registered sex offender to use emergency overnight shelters that are within 1,000 feet …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Computers
Internet Pornographer Operates Business from Detroit Jail Cell by Matthew Clarke Internet Pornographer Operates Business from Detroit Jail Cell by Matt Clarke For over a year and a half, Francis A. Sharrak, 45, managed his multimillion-dollar Internet pornography and strip club business from a downtown Detroit VIP isolation jail cell …
Article • January 12, 2015
Hostile Work Environment at Florida Jail Results in $262,000 Jury Award for Guard by Hostile Work Environment at Florida Jail Results in $262,000 Jury Award for Guard In March 2013, a Florida jury awarded $262,127.86 to a corrections sergeant who alleged her supervisors at the Palm Beach County Jail discriminated …
Article • January 12, 2015
GEO Group Reaps Higher Profit from New Mexico Prisons than Other States by GEO Group Reaps Higher Profit from New Mexico Prisons than Other States New Mexico pays significantly more to house prisoners in private prisons than other states, concluded a 2007 state legislative report. “Business decisions across two administrations …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Public Defenders
Federal Budget Cuts Diminish Public Defender Services by Federal Budget Cuts Diminish Public Defender Services Federal budget cuts in 2013, known as sequestration, caused a “very, very serious problem” for federal public defenders in providing constitutionally mandated representation of indigent defendants. When Steve Nolder, the director of the public defender’s …
Article • January 12, 2015
Estate Settles for $135,000 for Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by Estate Settles for $135,000 for Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Suicide A federal civil rights lawsuit alleges that a prisoner’s suicide at Michigan’s Kalamazoo County Jail (KCJ) was caused by depriving him of medical treatment for depression. The suit, filed by the …
Article • January 12, 2015
Alaska’s Sex Offender Registration Law is Punitive, Prohibiting Ex Post Facto Application by Alaska’s Sex Offender Registration Law is Punitive, Prohibiting Ex Post Facto Application The Alaska Supreme Court held its previous decision that held the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (ASORA) violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the …
Article • January 12, 2015
Court Ends Injunctive Monitoring of Ohio Juvenile System by Court Ends Injunctive Monitoring of Ohio Juvenile System The federal court overseeing the Stipulation for Injunctive Relief that resolved claims regarding conditions of confinement at facilities housing youth committed to the custody of the Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS) has …
Article • January 12, 2015
Prisoner Loses Habeas Suit Challenging Loss of BOP Good Time for “Constructive Possession” of a Weapon by Derek Gilna Prisoner Loses Habeas Suit Challenging Loss of BOP Good Time for “Constructive Possession” of a Weapon by Derek Gilna Federal prisoner Travis Denny was found in be in “constructive possession” of …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Infections
Bureau of Prisons Settles Prisoner's "Valley Fever" Suit for $425,000 by Bureau of Prisons Settles Prisoner's "Valley Fever" Suit for $425,000 by Matt Clarke In August 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) settled for $425,000 a lawsuit brought by a federal prisoner who claimed that the BOP had knowingly …
Article • January 12, 2015
Texas Counties Slowly Move Toward More Personal Bond Pretrial Releases by Texas Counties Slowly Move Toward More Personal Bond Pretrial Releases   by Matt Clarke   In September 2012, about half of the 67,000 jail prisoners in Texas were detained awaiting trial. In 2010, incarcerating pretrial detainees cost taxpayers in …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Racial Disparities Diminishing, Especially Among Female Prisoners by Racial Disparities Diminishing, Especially Among Female Prisoners   As dispiriting are the racial inequities of mass-incarceration, recent trends are cause for a sliver of cautious optimism, according to a 2013 report from The Sentencing Project, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. …
Article • January 12, 2015
Prisoner Labor Used to Package Potatoes for Vermont Food Bank by Prisoner Labor Used to Package Potatoes for Vermont Food Bank   Theresa Snow, executive director of Salvation Farms, a nonprofit organization that works to make use of farm surpluses, dreamed up the idea of using prisoner labor to sort …
Article • January 12, 2015
New York: Two Female Guards Impregnated by Prisoners, then Charged with Rape and Arrested by New York: Two Female Guards Impregnated by Prisoners, then Charged with Rape and Arrested   In February 2013, two female prison guards in New York State were arrested and charged with rape after it was …
Article • January 12, 2015
Maryland Jury Awards $5.6 Million for False Arrest and Detention by Matthew Clarke Maryland Jury Awards $5.6 Million for False Arrest and Detention by Matt Clarke On October 25, 2012, a Maryland jury awarded a man $5.6 million for damages incurred after he was arrested in Washington, D.C. on an …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Overdetention
NY State Liable Prisoner’s 30 Days Overdetention by NY State Liable Prisoner’s 30 Days Overdetention A New York Court of Claims judge, in a trial on the issue of liability only, has determined that the state department of corrections (DOC) wrongly held a prisoner thirty days past his release date …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Overdetention
NY State Liable for Prisoner’s 94 Days Overdetention by NY State Liable for Prisoner’s 94 Days Overdetention The State of New York has been found liable by a New York Court of claims judge for holding a prisoner 94 days past his release date. The court then ordered that a …
Article • January 12, 2015
NY DOC Liable for Three Days Extra Segregation by NY DOC Liable for Three Days Extra Segregation A New York Court of Claims judge recently found the State of New York liable for three days of unwarranted segregation, and has set a trial date to determine the amount of damages …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Workplace Injury
NY DOC Found 50% Liable Prisoner’s Injuries from Collapsed Chair by NY DOC Found 50% Liable Prisoner’s Injuries from Collapsed Chair A New York Court of Claims Judge has found a prisoner and the state department corrections each half responsible for injuries sustained by the prisoner when a chair collapsed …
Article • January 12, 2015
Filed under: Prisoner Property
NY Court Awards Prisoner over $400 for Lost Property by NY Court Awards Prisoner over $400 for Lost Property A New York state prisoner won a verdict recovering the value of personal property that went missing after he was transferred between prisons. The court also ordered the state to reimburse …
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